We were up early, ready and on time waiting for our guide/driver, Lewis. The hummer arrived, and it was one mean machine!! It was an original military vehicle built for the Gulf War, all refurbished, wheels all separately driven, chasis two feet off the ground.......(Verne is feeding me this info). Anyway, we all climbed aboard and off we went down the highway. The morning was rather cool but the air fresh as we whipped along. Highway to secondary road, to rarely traveled, to sand road, to trail......into the desolate depths of the Mojave and Colorado Deserts and the Joshua Tree National Park. This park of 800,000 acres has so much history and contains the oldest canyons in the country, incredible rock formations, an ancient volcano and a landscape much the same as those news photos
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